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Asked: 2026-06-08T15:51:29+00:00

What I’m trying to do is make my website’s urls look prettier to the

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What I’m trying to do is make my website’s urls look prettier to the users.
For example I have this link in the index.php file in a href tags:

index.php?v=class&id=5

And I want the user to see in the address bar this:

http://www.mysite.com/class/5

I have tried using this code:

RewriteRule /([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?v=$1&id=$2

But I found out that it does the opposite. It makes the good looking urls turn into bad ones. It would take the http://www.mysite.com/class/5 and show this: http://www.mysite.com/index.php?v=class&id=5. What should I do?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’re almost there.

    Don’t use R in your RewriteRule. R is an external redirect (it tells the browser to redirect, so the URL changes). Instead, remove the R to do an internal redirect, that way Apache can still parse the query string normally, but the user sees the pretty URL (the URL doesn’t change in the browser).

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